Grendel

<br>1) heorots plea and grendels awakening.<br><br><br><br>Midnight suns bid moors farewell, retreats from charging dusk,<br><br>Mountain echo, curfews bell, signal ending tasks<br><br>They place their faith in oaken doors, cower in candlelight<br><br>The panic seeps through bloodstained floors as grendel stalks the night<br><br><br><br>Earth rim walker seeks his meals<br><br>Prepare the funeral pyres<br><br>The shapers song no longer heal the fear<br><br>Within their eyes, [their eyes]<br><br><br><br>Wooden figures, pagan gods, stare blindly cross the sea<br><br>Appeal for help from ocean fogs, for saviour born of dreams<br><br>They know their lives are forfeit now, priestly head they bow in shame<br><br>They cannot face the trembling crowd that flinch in grendels name<br><br><br><br>Earth rim walker seeks his meals<br><br>Prepare the funeral pyres<br><br>The shapers song no longer heal the fear<br><br>Within their eyes, (their eyes)<br><br><br><br>As grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere<br><br>Along the forest path he roams to hrothgars hall so clear<br><br>He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify<br><br>His claws will drip with mortal blood as moonbeams haunt the sky<br><br><br><br>As grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere<br><br>Along the forest path he roams to hrothgars hall so clear<br><br>He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify<br><br>His claws will drip with mortal blood, as moonbeams haunt the sky<br><br><br><br>Earth rim walker seeks his meals<br><br>Prepare the funeral pyres<br><br>The shapers song no longer heal the fear<br><br>Within their eyes, (their eyes)<br><br><br><br>2) grendels journey.<br><br><br><br>Silken membranes span his path, fingerprints in dew<br><br>Denizens of twilight lands humbly beg him through<br><br>Mother natures bastard child shunned by leaf and stream<br><br>As alien in an alien land seeks solace within dreams<br><br>The shapers lies his poisoned tongue malign with mocking harp<br><br>Beguiling queen her innocence offends his icy heart<br><br><br><br>3) lurker at the threshold.<br><br><br><br>Hounds freeze in silence bewitched by the reptile spell<br><br>Sulphurous essence pervades round the grassy dell<br><br>Heorot awaits him like lamb to the butchers knife<br><br>Stellular heavens ignore even childrens cries<br><br><br><br>Screams are his music, lightning his guide<br><br>Raping the darkness, d-d-death by his side<br><br><br><br>Chants rise in terror, free round the oaken beams<br><br>Flickering firelight portraying the grisly scene<br><br>Warriors advance, prepare for the nightmare foe<br><br>Futile their sacrifice as even their hearts must know<br><br><br><br>Heroes delusion, with feet in the grave<br><br>Lurker at the threshold, he cares not for the brave, he cares not for the brave<br><br><br><br>4) finale.<br><br><br><br>So you thought that your bolts and your locks would keep me out? <br><br>You should have known better after all this time<br><br>Youre gonna pay in blood for all your vicious slander<br><br>With your ugly pale skins and your putrid blue eyes<br><br>Why should I feel pity when you kill your own and feel no shame<br><br>Gods on my side, sure as hell, Im gonna take no blame<br><br>Im gonna take no blame, Im gonna take no blame<br><br><br><br>So you say you believe in all of mother natures laws<br><br>You lust for gold with your sharpened knives<br><br>Oh when your hoards are gathered and your enemies left to rot<br><br>You pray with your bloodstained hands at the feet of our pagan gods<br><br><br><br>Then you try to place the killers blade in my hand<br><br>You call for justice and distort the truth<br><br>Well Ive had enough of all your pretty pretty speeches<br><br>Receive your punishment, expose your throats to my righteous claws<br><br>And let the blood flow, and let the blood flow, flow, flow, flow.